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National Cybersecurity Defense Team Authorization Act

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(legal term)

Allowed the U.S. PresidentÂ’s Advisor for Cyberspace Security to set up a National Cyber Security Defense Team to identify Internet infrastructures vulnerable to terrorist attacks and to recommend ways of eliminating such vulnerabilities. On March 5, 2002, the Act was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. On May 23, 2002, the bill was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders, but was not passed in this form.

See Also: Cyberspace; Internet; Vulnerabilities of Computers.

Center for Democracy and Technology. Legislation Affecting the Internet. [Online, July 28, 2004.] Center for Democracy and Technology Website. http://www.cdt.org/ legislation/107th/wiretaps/.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
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